The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERsoNAL ANp PoL1TIcAL

9th.
Mrs. VAN ZANDT, Of Chicago, mother Of
Nina, is said TO be making strenuous eff
forts to secure eminent counsel TO plead
In behalf Of the condemned Anarchists.
OK the 9th Mr.. Gladstone was enthusi-
Rstically cheered by the people on his way
10 the House Of Commons.
The balloting for Senator in the Indiana,
Texas and West Virginia Legislatures on
the 9th was without result
RUSSIA viii propose Prince Nicholas of
Of Leuchterberg as candidate for the
Bulgarian throne.
FROM report to the United States Sen
ate in response to inquiry, it appears that
the fees paid Mr.. Bliss in the LindsA land
fraud cases were S6 $40.
A PROFOUND sensation has been caused
In Paris by General Boulauger's sudden
refusal 70 grant an audience to any for
eign journalist
In the House Of Commons on the 27th,
Lord Randolph Churchill explained his
reason for resigning from Lord Sails
bury's cabinet
In the election for the Exchange division
OF Liverpool the final count confirms tho
defeat OF Goschen By Neville the Glad
stone candidate, by soven votes
A FEMALE witness is said TO have been
discovered in New York whose evidence,
1T is thought, will clear ex-Alderman
O'Neil
MCCLELLAN. late Canadian Minister Of
hsheries7 thilks the proposed fisheries
legislation at Washington will cut both
ways, and that Canada will not be greatly
troubled by it,
OK the 27th King Theebaw Of Burmah
entered Mandalay in royal style, riding
upon an elephant. Tue British commits
sioners conducted him to a residence out
side Of the palace walls,
On the @7th Archbishop Corrigan, Cardi-
nal Gibbons Cardinal Taschereau and the
members of the Archbishop's council had
Emeetlng in New York, and talked over
matters relating to the present disorders
In the Catholic Church.
OK the 21th the will OF the hate Bishop
Horatio Potter, bearing date April 26.
1873, was filed in the Surrogate's Office in
New York. No charitable requests are
mentioned in the paper, and the estate is
bequeathed 10 the children of the testa-
tor
QUEEN VICTORrk has begun her own cele-
bration Of her jubilee by commanding
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall TO perform the we'll
known piece, "Unclc's Will" on the 3Ist,
at Osborne. This win be the second time
since Prince Albert's death that the piece
has been presented at dramatic per
formaDce
OK the 27th che Mexican gunboat Demo
crat arrived at Guaymas with Cajeme, the
Yaqui chief, q prisoner This ends the
war between the Yaquis and the Mexi-
cans, which lasted two years. 1t is be-
heved that Cajeme named his own terms
CoMPTRoLLEH Of the Currency Tren-
holm, authorized the National Bank of
Duluth, Miun.' to begin business with a
capital of S5gO,OOO.
JUDGE HARMON, of the Superior Court Of
Ohio, has resigned.
President CLEVELAND and wife are Sc
riously considering trip to the w est the
coming summer.
JUDGE GRANT, of Marquette Mich, who
tried the cases, confirms the recently pub
hshed reports Of depravity in the lumber
camps.
THE fisheries question was brought up
In the British House of Commons on the
2Sth, and Minister Phelps had an inter
view with Lord Salisbury on the same
subject.
SIR MICHAEL HIC-s-BEACu made a sen
sation in the British House Of Commons
on the 2lst, by saying there was zone real
remedy for She Irish troubles and that
was 20 remove the poor people from the
povcrty-stricl1cn district"
TUE Attorney General has received tel
egrams from Chauncey NJ. DePew, presi-
dent of the New York Central railroad,
and other officials asking that they may
be heard in opposition to the Interstate
Commerce bill before the President acts
upon it The Attorney General replied by
telegraph declining the suggested oral
presentation, but saying he would be glad
TO receive briefs of their arguments
CoNcERNING the health Of Congressman
Cox, of New York, Mrs. Cox, in note,
says $50 many friends write that they
are watching the papers for further news
as to his illness, will you please say that
he continues to improve, though very
slowly He is quite weak and neither sees
nor hears his mail"
CHARLES Il. ORBAN, a Philadelphia news
boy has Just received "a verdict for SIS, 600
damages against the Philadelphia Trac-
tion Company FOR injuries received by be
ing pushed from one of the cOmpany's
cars. His injuries resulted in the loss of
one Of his legs.
Princess AUGUSTA VICTORIA, wife of
Prince William, eldest son of the Crown
Prince of Germany, gave birth 70 a son on
the 29th.
THE Jury in the case of tho wife of Prof
EmmCus, ON trial in Washington as to her
sanity, decided on the 10Th that the lady is
sane enough 10 take care of herself, and
that the professor can not have her con-
fined i'm an asylum.
RuMoR says United States Cousul-Gen-
. eral Porch, at the city Of Mexico, is likely
70 be removed.
URUGUAY has issued a decree of Danish
mont against eX-PresIdent Santos.
JOHN ID. HERMAN, "a son of ex-senator
Herman, of New York, Is talked of for a
place on the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
LoHD ALGERNoN PERCY's OFFER to resign
his scat i'm the British Parliament in favor
Of Goschen will probably be accepted by
the latter.
No TRACE has vet been found Of Schro-
der, the dcfaulting secretary and treas
urcr OF the GcFmauia Savings Bank of
Jersey City n j.
Hon. GEORGE H. PENDLEToN, United
States Minister to Germany, was among
the passengers ON the steamer Saale from
Bremen, which arrived at New York on
the both.
FULLY $500 persons attended the serv-
Ices commemorative Of General John A.
Logan at Grand Army Han, williamsburg
N. Y, on the evening of the Both. The
services were held under the auspices of
Manshcli Post No. 81, G. A. r. The hall
was appropriately decorated and the serv-
Ices were impressive.
THE dispositions of Wittrock and HaiEht,
che convicted express robbers, were taken
at the Missouri pcniteutiary on the Goth,
Warden Marmaduke having refused to
obey the writ Of habcas corpus command
ing him TO produce the prisoners in St
Louis. No evidence was adduced in any
wav ipculpating Messenger Fothering-
ham.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CoRNIsH, who killed his sweetheart AT
Sharpsburg, Ky, made a desperate at
tempt on the 2Sth TO escape Jail at Bards-
town. where he was confined.
DIR. SCuooLEB, dean OF the Iowa College
OF Physicians and Surgeons at Des Moines
Ia, has been indicted as a party to the
desecration Of "a young lady's grave.
WAEnEN MARNApUKE Of the NJ issouri
penUentiary refused 20 take Wittrock
and Haight 70 ST. Louis TO testify in the